The Instrumental director : containing rules for all musical instruments in common use laid down in a plain and concise manner : to which is added a variety of instrumental musick of the richest and most popular kind extant, a part of which was never before published in this country.

Format:

• Microformat
• Musical score

Contributor:

• Goodale, Ezekiel, 1780-1828.

Series:

• Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 51897.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Band music.
• Military music--United States.
• Military music.
• United States.
• Woodwind instruments--Methods--Self-instruction.
• Woodwind instruments.
• Brass instruments--Methods--Self-instruction.
• Brass instruments.
• Stringed instruments--Methods--Self-instruction.
• Stringed instruments.

Genre:

• Band music.
• Methods (Music)
• Self-instruction.
• Scores.

Physical Description:

• 1 score (95 pages)
• 6x9 in.
• monochrome
• service copy
• positive

Place of Publication:

Hallowell [Me.] : E. Goodale, 1819.

Notes:

• For a listing of titles in each box consult American bibliography : a preliminary checklist for 1801-1819 / compiled by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.
• For military band.
• Attributed to Ezekiel Goodale.
• " ... a work is wanted suitable for the instruction of a full Military Band ... Rules which are plain and easy to be understood, and at the same time sufficiently full and explicit, have been collected ... for the following instruments, viz: Clarionett, Bassoon, Serpent, French Horn, German Flute, Patent Flute, Hautboy, Flagelet, Trumpet, Bugle, Violin, Viola and Violoncello": Advertisement.
• Includes index.
• Microopaque. New York, N.Y. : Readex Microprint, courtesy of A.A.S., 1983, 3 microopaques ; 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 51897). Photographed from an imperfect copy: p. 33-34 & 51-52 lacking; other slight loss of music.

Cited in:

• Shaw & Shoemaker, 51897.
• Wolfe, R.J. Secular music, 3168.

OCLC:

78331007